Wheels of Success
Bahraich: On 20th September, 2014, 6 of our girls from Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, enrolled under the campaign ‘Our Girls Our Pride’ were presented with cycles in a small function held at Shri Ram Prakash Inter College, Payagpur. These girls come from far-flung villages and walk to school every day for more than 10kms. This step has brought further encouragement for our girls and their families who are taking efforts to ensure that their daughters attend school regularly.
This program has also seen tremendous support from school principals, teachers, trustees and parents. All the parties were equally happy to felicitate and encourage these girls. Read the Full Story

Wheels of Success
Bahraich: On 20th September, 2014, 6 of our girls from Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, enrolled under the campaign ‘Our Girls Our Pride’ were presented with cycles in a small function held at Shri Ram Prakash Inter College, Payagpur. These girls come from far-flung villages and walk to school every day for more than 10kms. This step has brought further encouragement for our girls and their families who are taking efforts to ensure that their daughters attend school regularly.
This program has also seen tremendous support from school principals, teachers, trustees and parents. All the parties were equally happy to felicitate and encourage these girls. Read the Full Story

Our Girls Our Pride
2 fold aim:
– Create awareness about the 4 main issues related to India’s girl child: Foeticide, Infanticide, Nutrition and Education
– Raise funds to sponsor education for as many girls as possible and make a positive difference in their lives
• Our Girls Our Pride is supported by Priyanka Chopra who is the campaign ambassador
NDTV is partnering with Pratham, the largest NGO working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India to implement this project across India Read the Full Story

MEWSIC CENTRES
Australian cricketer Brett Lee whose fast paced deliveries on the field have left us in awe is now set to touch the lives of the children in India off the cricket field though his other passion Music.
17th May 2011 was day of excitement for the whole community as crowds of people gathered to catch a glimpse of the famed cricketer in Govandi as he arrived to launch his foundation MEWSIC. But as Brett put it, the day wasn’t about him, the ‘cricketer’ but the children and bringing the joy of music to them. And true to his word that is how Brett spent his time at the launch. Brett Lee launched his foundation MEWSIC with the inauguration of the Music Centre in partnership with Pratham in Sanjay Nagar.
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Education
To make education accessible and available to children from critical backgrounds.
Rehabilitation of children through education.
Strategy to convince the employers that children should not work

Education is one of the key programs in which there are manifold strategies to ensure that children are brought back into the education net. Education is also our non controversial entry point program and final strategy for rehabilitation of working children and other children in need of care and protection.
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Rehabilitation for children Lack of a proper rehabilitation plan is one of the major challenges faced by National and International agencies. More than only withdrawing children from work, rehabilitation implies providing former child labourers and vulnerable children with proper facilities to maintain them away from work and mainstream them back into the education net.

The objective of our Rehabilitation program is to ensure that vulnerable children and former child labourers not only enjoy their basic rights to childhood but are also given quality education for proper social reintegration. Read the Full Story

Rescue & Repatriation
After a few years of collaboration with the owners, PCVC changed its strategy and took the decision to start removing the children from work.

This whole movement started with the cruel death of a child labourer named Afzal in Govandi. This issue was advocated to the political bosses in Maharashtra and thus was formed theState Task Force on child labour in 2005 under the chairmanship of the labour commissioner.
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Awareness and Advocacy
While working on the issue of vulnerable children our aim has always been to demonstrate successful programs at the grass root level and through advocacy ensure that the Government replicates these models.

Right from the inception of PCVC, awareness and advocacy have been a major part of our activities. There have been different kinds of awareness programs to reach out to different target groups and stake holders in the community. Media and the civil society have been our vehicles for awareness and advocacy on the issue of working children and vulnerable children. Read the Full Story

Special EventsThe Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children (PCVC) has been working for the rights of children across the slum communities in Mumbai since 2001.
One of the most glaring observations in these slums has been the low standards of hygiene and sanitation practiced by the government and the residents making them susceptible to all kinds of illnesses and in addition also affects the productivity of the workforce
and the development of the children. These appalling conditions that children live in are a violation of their right to a safe and healthy childhood. Read the Full Story

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Who We Are

The Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children (PCVC)was born in April 2001 to reach out to the most vulnerable, unreached children. The idea was to withdraw them from their exploitative conditions and ensure their proper rehabilitation in family, school and society.

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Career Guidance and Counselling Workshop for Children in Conflict with Law

Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children (PCVC) along with the Mumbai Police and Pratham Arora Center of Education (PACE) held a Counselling cum Career Guidance Workshop for Children in Conflict with Law at Shivaji Nagar on 7th February, 2015. Close to 150 children and parents attended this workshop to understand various education, employment and career opportunities available at PACE centers across India.

'Our Girls Our Pride' campaign inauguration across 7 cities in India

Uttarakhand (Rudraprayag) : On Thursday, 07th August, 2014, the Rudraprayag district witnessed the inauguration celebration of the ‘Our Girls Our Pride’ campaign initiated by Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children in partnership with NDTV-Vedanta foundation. The program saw the participation of 20 girls along with their parents. With the start of the new academic year, the children look forward to learning and being actively involved in all school work. The girls come from across villages in the Augustyamuni block. These vulnerable and deserving children are enrolled in government and private schools nearest to their homes. 71 girls have been enrolled under this program from two blocks in Uttarakhand - Ukhimath & Augustyamani of Rudraprayag District.

319 Child Labourers Rescued in Hyderabad..

We at PCVC have always believed that the best place for children to grow and have a safe childhood is with their families in their homes. This way, their best interests are taken care of and they can lead a carefree childhood. But most often than not, children are sent away from their homes for work and to earn money to supplement their family income. Many children are forced into becoming child labourers jeopardizing their lives, innocence and childhood.

We have been working for years to eliminate this social evil and have succeeded yet again in our endeavor by rescuing 319 child labourers in Hyderabad.

PCVC extends child rights network to Darjeeling! Some highlights from the eventful visit

April, 2013: Farida ma’am, Kishor, Sneha, and Pratyush travelled to Kalimpong in the northern part of Darjeeling District, West Bengal on a consulting assignment for an organization called Bal Suraksha Abhiyan (BSA). BSA, a relatively new organization run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, is focused on child rights protection and is based in Kalimpong. At present their work is primarily focused on protection against child labour and on rescuing child workers from exploitive conditions, in addition to running a full-time shelter home for over 100 vulnerable children in Kalimpong. Our work initially began through interacting with BSA and Caritas, the funding and development agency of the Catholic Church with offices spread across many countries, who approached us sometime in 2012 to advise on data collection methods and processes during their pilot program on child rights protection.